I’ve been keeping well out of this, but I wanted to comment on one point:
On 7 Nov 2015, at 21:54, bulk88 <bul...@hotmail.com> wrote: > But https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/issues/235 > should've been a wake up call that something is very wrong, but it wasn't a > wake up call. The revert should have never happened. It looks to me like it > was done hastily to avoid "tough questions", kick the can down the road, and > end the unpleasant discussion. <imho> For critical modules like EUMM, if the latest non-developer release on CPAN is broken in a way that affects downstream dists, then it should be fixed in the most expeditious way. If that means a revert to give people time to look at the *correct way forward*, then so be it. Here “critical” for me essentially means “far enough up the CPAN river that a large percentage of CPAN is dependent on it”. And there ain’t much further upstream than EUMM. </imho> Neil
